Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences

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Effects of Building-Roof Cooling on Flow and Air Temperature in Urban Street Canyons

  • Kim, Jae-Jin (Department of Environmental Atmospheric Sciences, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Pardyjak, Eric (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah) ;
  • Kim, Do-Yong (Department of Environmental Engineering, Mokpo National University) ;
  • Han, Kyoung-Soo (Department of Spatial Information Engineering, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Kwon, Byung-Hyuk (Department of Environmental Atmospheric Sciences, Pukyong National University)
  • Received : 2013.07.15
  • Accepted : 2013.12.06
  • Published : 2014.05.31
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Abstract

The effects of building-roof cooling on flow and air temperature in 3D urban street canyons are numerically investigated using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model. The aspect ratios of the building and street canyon considered are unity. For investigating the building-roof cooling effects, the building-roof temperatures are systematically changed. The traditional flow pattern including a portal vortex appears in the spanwise canyon. Compared with the case of the control run, there are minimal differences in flow pattern in the cases in which maximum building-roof cooling is considered. However, as the building roof becomes cooler, the mean kinetic energy increases and the air temperature decreases in the spanwise canyon. Building-roof cooling suppresses the upward and inward motions above the building roof, resultantly increasing the horizontal velocity near the roof level. The increase in wind velocity above the roof level intensifies the secondarily driven vortex circulation as well as the inward (outward) motion into (out of) the spanwise canyon. Finally, building-roof cooling reduces the air temperature in the spanwise canyon, supplying much relatively cool air from the streamwise canyon into the spanwise canyon.

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